After attending Fa Xiao’s wedding, New Year’s Eve and Spring Festival are coming soon.
The flavor of the New Year gradually gets stronger over time, and the small mountain village begins to be filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke after the fireworks. People who have been working hard outside all year round have also returned to their hometowns and walked around the village to visit.
Meet the elders from the neighborhood whom I haven’t seen for a long time.
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Xu Chuan and Xu Xiao went to worship their ancestors with their father.
On the 30th New Year's Day, it is also a custom in southern Hunan to go to worship ancestors one day in advance and invite ancestors to go home for reunion during the New Year.
Compared with previous years, this year's graveyard has been renovated inside and out. The road up the mountain has been paved with stone slabs. The overgrown weeds and shrubs are no longer there. Even the graves that have no home or descendants have been restored.
Under the organization of the village, new soil was planted and incense candles and paper flowers were placed.
These are all changes brought about by Xu Chuan. There is such a great scholar and scientist in the village. Not only his family’s ancestral tombs, but also the ancestral tombs mountain must be repaired and sorted out no matter what.
After going up the mountain to pay New Year's greetings to his ancestors, Xu Chuan just returned home when he saw two cars parked in front of his house.
Walking through the door, inside the room, Xu's mother was entertaining several familiar guests.
"Hey, our Academician Xu is back."
Seeing Xu Chuan come in, a middle-aged man stood up with a smile and shouted.
Those who came to visit his home were several familiar teachers and school leaders from Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School.
Tang Gaoyuan walked up with a smile, looked the student up and down, then reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Not bad, we all became academicians this year."
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It's all taught well by Teacher Tang."
On the side, Yuan Jiye laughed and joked: "Look, I knew this was what he said. For several years, he only replied to this sentence when Old Tang praised him, and it hasn't changed at all."
Hearing this, the group burst into laughter, and Xu Chuan's face turned slightly red.
After unpacking the tea leaves given to him by the great elder and making a few more cups of tea, the group of people chatted in the room. After chatting for a while, the principal Yuan Jiye coughed lightly and said:
"I'm here this time, and I have one more thing I want to ask you for help with."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan quickly said: "Principal, please tell me, I will try my best to help you."
He is a student who graduated from Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School. Although it is only a high school, his academic career actually started there.
In other words, it should be Lao Tang who laid a real foundation for learning for him.
Yuan Jiye smiled and said: "Actually, it's not a big deal. Thanks to students like you, after the Chinese New Year this year, our No. 1 Middle School will also expand next year and prepare to build more teaching buildings and dormitories.
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"Isn't it because the school has produced a Nobel Prize winner and a Fields Medal winner? The school wants to borrow your name as the name of the teaching building, so that the new students can benefit from your talent and academic spirit as a literary star.
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Giving a name is really not a big deal.
You see, the favorite thing of many rich people is to donate money to the school to build a building, and then name it after themselves.
Leaving a name in history should be the dream of most people.
However, there are only a few people who can do this throughout the thousands of years of human civilization.
But finding another way and using other methods to stay famous in academia is also a good choice.
For example, the nationally famous Shaw Tower was built and built with donations from the famous entertainment tycoon Run Run Shaw.
Hearing this, Xu Chuan was slightly stunned. He originally thought that his alma mater came to him and wanted to ask him to give a speech or report to the students, but he did not expect that this was the case.
The expansion of No. 1 Middle School is indeed a great thing for the alma mater.
It was just named after him. Xu Chuan thought about it and didn't completely refuse.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Instead of naming it after me, it's better to call it 'Chuanhai Tower', which means how the students from the alma mater flow into the sea and live forever; just like the river flows into the sea, they will eventually live forever."
Return."
Hearing this, several school leaders and teachers looked at each other.
Tang Gaoyuan thought for a while and said: "The name Chuanhailou is indeed good, but it is difficult to associate it with you."
"How about this? Chuanhai Building can be used as the name of the new dormitory building. All rivers return to the sea and students return home. It has a good meaning. As for the teaching building, it would be better to name it after you."
After a pause, Old Tang added: "Don't be so shy all the time. It's just a name. No one else can ask for it. Isn't it a good idea to let your juniors and juniors gain some talent?"
Hearing this, Xu Chuan looked dumbfounded. How could he be like this?
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In the end, Xu Chuan agreed to his alma mater's request.
After all, he also hopes that his alma mater can produce more outstanding students.
The visit from the leader of a lieutenant colonel is actually just a microcosm.
Ever since he came back to celebrate the New Year, people have been coming over one after another, even the city leaders from Star City and the leaders from the Education Bureau have also been here.
Although Xu Chuan is not very interested in these things, he has nothing to do when people come to visit him. He can't just stay behind closed doors.
Fortunately, time flies by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the night of New Year's Eve has arrived.
Xu Xiao, who still has a childlike innocence, ran to the store and bought a lot of fireworks and firecrackers, and took Xu Chuan to set them off together.
More than a dozen sky cannons pointed directly at the sky, and grains of gold sand shot out, blooming proudly in the sky. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, everything was complete and colorful, decorating the night sky beautifully and gracefully, and illuminating the earth as if it were daytime.
"Brother! Happy New Year!"
At twelve o'clock, the New Year's bell rang. Amidst the lively sound of firecrackers, Xu Xiao laughed and shouted loudly at the top of her voice.
Xu Chuan smiled warmly, reached out and touched the big girl's head, and looked at the gorgeous fireworks blooming in the sky.
A new year, a new beginning, I hope there will be a good harvest and breakthrough this year!
After setting off the New Year's Eve firecrackers, Xu Chuan retreated to his room. His parents were watching TV, and he took out his cell phone to respond to the blessing messages, flipping through his address book, sending messages and making phone calls.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Outside the house, Xu Xiao, who was smelling like gunfire after playing for a while, ran in. Seeing Xu Chuan busy doing his own thing, he didn't bother him.
Sitting cross-legged on the sofa, I took out my phone and started grabbing red envelopes and giving them out in the group.
After a long time, Xu Xiao, who felt some soreness in his neck, turned his head. When he turned around, he saw that his brother was still sitting there motionless.
Wu Piao's eyes rolled, she opened the prestige, found the group 'Family who believe in love', and then started to operate.
After a while, Xu Chuan, who was sending authoritative messages to wish him a happy new year, suddenly noticed that there were many people who liked him in the group of relatives and friends.
Click on it and see a bunch of red envelopes in the group chat history.
It was just the name of the red envelope that stunned him.
[Two orioles chirping in the green willows, my brother has no girlfriend!]
[Jinse has fifty strings for no reason, my brother doesn’t have a girlfriend yet!]
【There are trees in the mountains and branches in the trees, but my brother doesn’t have a girlfriend!】
[Ask me how much you can worry about, my brother doesn’t have a girlfriend!]
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Looking at the red envelopes in the group of relatives and friends, as well as the people who gave them, Xu Chuan's blood pressure instantly rose. He raised his head and saw that the culprit who was staring at him closely and paying attention to the movements here made a face and quickly left.
He got up from the sofa and ran away.
As soon as I got up and chased him out, before I could catch the culprit, the phone in my hand rang.
He stopped and took a look, and the person who called him was the chairman of the council over there, Professor David Gross.
After receiving this call, Xu Chuan stopped.
"Xu, I wish you a happy new year!"
When the call was connected, David Gross said his blessing in somewhat broken Mandarin: "I heard that today is the Chinese New Year, have a good New Year!"
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Thank you for your blessing."
Gross: "I'm calling you today, I have some good news for you!"
Xu Chuan smiled and asked, "What's the good news?"
"After discussion by the Board of Directors, we decided to postpone the upgrade of the LHC and arranged personnel to go to China to inspect and discuss the purchase of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials."
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "This is the best news I heard on the first day of the new year. I am very happy to cooperate with you."
Gross smiled and said: "It is also an honor to have in-depth exchanges with a great scholar like you. I hope we can successfully find traces of dark matter together in the future."
"In addition, I would like to ask you when is it convenient for me to arrange for someone to go to China to meet you."
Xu Chuan: "Of course, this is not only the goal of the physics community, but also my goal."
"As for the time, today is January 25th in the Gregorian calendar. I should be working in Jinling after February 5th. The following days will be convenient for me."
Gross smiled and said: "Then I won't disturb your reunion with your family today. I wish you a happy New Year. We'll see you after February 5th."
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "No problem, I will wait for you at Nanjing University."
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